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Art doesn’t just show us history — sometimes it travels through it. Statues, paintings, entire collections make their way across centuries and continents, carrying their stories with them. In today’s David and Art, host David Smith follows one of those journeys, from ancient Rome to Texas.

Hi. Welcome back to Likely Stories. I'm Paige Connell and I teach English at Midway High School. The late 1960s must have been quite a time to be alive. I missed it by just a decade or so. Groovy tunes, free love, mod fashion, patriarchal oppression. Wait, that last one doesn't sound so fun, but it is a topic that the author delves into in the social commentary masquerading as a story about unwed pregnant teenagers in Central Florida.

This week on I Hear America Singing, we explore the many ways music says goodbye.

The Rev. Johnny “The Hurricane” Jones preached and sang at Second Mount Olive Baptist Church in Atlanta for nearly 60 years!

“Mr. Texas,” by Pulitzer Prize winner Lawrence Wright, is a novel about the making of a Texas state legislator.

Mahalia Jackson’s majestic, magnificent version of “City Called Heaven” is one of the great powerhouse vocals in gospel music history.

The Willie Webb Singers showcased Willie’s amazing keyboards, vocals and songwriting.

This week JB Smith and guest host Rachel Velasco will be discussing local impacts of the end to the government shutdown, two big developments across lake Waco, and an update on next years primary elections.

In his last episode of David and Art, host David Smith traced how the government first started wrestling with its role in the arts. Today, he rolls back the clock to look at how that push-and-pull actually began.

On this edition, host Fiona Bond is joined by educator and multimedia artist, Dr. Ronnita Carridine, along with Director of the Performing Arts Community Center, David Corkill.